by investor chris hansen and microsoft ceo steve balmer. this steve balmer guy is important because following the news, california's the senate leader darrell steinburg who represents sacramento wrote a letter to the state department that controls state contracts asking for information about how much the state spends on microsoft products. he demanded to know, do we have contracts with them, are we giving them money, are they using the money we're giving them basically to turn around and take one of our great state assets. >> so if you do this, we're going to do that. >> val. we're going to dig right in there steinburg can't control the contracts but he can put punish on the country. >> it's a big loss not only for sacramento but all of us, i think the average salary is is 7 1/2 million, that's a lot of taxes heading to seattle. >> they're estimated to be about $7 million a. >>> yeah that's not all f of it. california has a funky rule if players come from out of state to play games in state they have to pay payroll tax ins california, so there is
